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Well, no coffee needed this morning.

$103,515,940,301.79

Ultimately you're going to have to decide your risk tolerance and how much you value the intangible elements of it as an experience.

Practically and fiscally speaking, it's a bad choice. I made the same choice at about the same point in my career. Nothing came of it in terms of exit, and I learned a lot about my own deficiencies in the process.

The benefit of being young is you generally have fewer obligations tying you down, so this kind of risk is palatable. You just have to decide how much risk is worth it for the experience; put a value on that intangible element experience.

Is the experience and sliver of opportunity worth $90k + work-life-balance?

I like to alternate yoga and traditional gym days. The yoga is still hard work but has more restorative qualities, and often complements my gym work rather well. That said, I still take one or two rest days a week. Being in your thirties comes with some physical boundaries you'd do well to respect.

Too true! Feels extra nice to be able to spread the sentiment of gratitude so far and wide. Keep it up!

Holy moly -- you're behind Relisten, OP? I owe you a great debt of gratitude for the hours of musical joy Relisten has given me.

I'm just here for the Grateful Dead reference.

When I've had longer-running test/lint suites in the past, I've added simple sounds to the ends of their run scripts (birds chirping for success, alarm blare for fail) that help me draw my attention back. I had an issue where I would go off and read the news, or social media, or whatever, when running my tests, then suddenly it would be twenty minutes later and not only would I have wasted fifteen minutes, I'd have forgotten what it was I was even doing...

For a long time I used names of (usually) the transitional metals on the periodic table. It started just as "Titanium" for a PowerBook G4 since that was its codename anyway, but went on from there.

Then it transitioned to plants and trees: aster, begonia, willow, maple. I had a shift in life where I began to value the organic world more than dry, boring metals.

Universal Access (Control? Whatever it's called) between multiple Macs not only allows sharing input methods but also dragging files back and forth, and works pretty seamlessly. I imagine the same mechanism is at work here.

Nostalgia unlocked...

Just dropping in to say I appreciate the kind and friendly contextualization of your feedback. It would be really easy for someone in your position to be unfriendly in communicating this. This kind of tact and emotional intelligence is something I really cherish seeing from strangers on the Internet.

So, Mary Shelley (and her character, Viktor Frankenstein) was right?

1. Yep. Very small company which made it all the more painful as my former colleagues have become close friends. The hard lesson? The bottom line makes exceptions for no one.

2. Yes and no. Emotionally, yes. I felt a lot more desperate and took negative signals in the process far more personally. No in that I think the market is chilly to begin with and so my layoff was not a contributing factor to how the process went.

3. Nah, if anything it socially improved my life. Got back into touch with a number of former colleagues/friends and had more time to shore up my personal life while going through my job search.

All in all this sucks, no way around it. But we're gonna make it through.

Reading this comment and its replies, I think it's evident that there's no "rule" as far as what you should or shouldn't do goes.

For example, I had a second major in theatre, but I had no delusion of working a living in theatre that could compare with the kind of career that a CS degree typically delivers. It was and is a personal passion of mine, and to be able to deepen my understanding of it in an academic setting was valuable and rewarding to me personally.

Studying theatre paid dividends in other ways as well. Managing a production is a beast, and you learn a lot about how to manage people and get things done. Dramaturgy, often called literary analysis, was quoted by my professor (a scholar on the topic) as "what are the parts, and how do they go together?" -- a shorthand that I still use to this day when thinking about a new system.

If it wasn't clear already, I had a very positive experience in my studies at a Liberal Arts school, where the connections between fields, and the value they can offer each other, are a big focus.

Just taking on a second major won't necessarily pay off, but keeping in mind the holistic point of your education may create an outcome where the sum is substantially larger than its parts.